Tellstick DUO

[standers67]

Could anyone expect this product to be available before Q3?
/Stefan

[kokki]

When would be this product available?

[fredrik.gullberg]

TellStick Duo will be available Q2, 2011.

[jajnas]

It's getting closer now. Any more specific date of release?

[micke.prag]

We are working as hard as we can with our factory to finish everything needed. The latest roadmap from the manufacturer, they said May.
So far we have got a pre production sample of both electronics and the plastic enclosure. The enclosure is not finished yet though.
After production is finished, add 1-2 weeks, to ship them to the resellers.

[Frunk]

Thank you for keeping us informed. This product will be a real step up for low cost & hand made home automation solutions. I plan to make this Tellstick Duo the key point of my new house, that will be fully equiped with 433Mhz switches, lights and power plugs.

[micke.prag]

Hopefully we can publish some photos soon.

[peec]

I'm looking forward to the release of DUO too, i didn't get the time to buy the original tellstick, i was about to buy the old tellstick right now but saw that the DUO is coming! Great news!

I am currently writing JAVA wrapper for the API of tellstick, and some test apps to save some power.

If anyone is interested, it's open source under BSD:

http://code.google.com/p/javatellstick/

[micke.prag]

Great work. But you seem to use the really old version (1.x) of our library. Please use telldus-core instead. TellUSBD101 will be removed when 2.1 is released. The 1.x library has been depricated for some years now...

[peec]

Great work. But you seem to use the really old version (1.x) of our library. Please use telldus-core instead. TellUSBD101 will be removed when 2.1 is released. The 1.x library has been depricated for some years now...

Oh, thank you for telling!

I have updated it all now, using Telldus Core instead. Thank you again!
Actually I saw that there was a lot more features in telldus core, this is great, more features to implement!

[Frunk]

Mike,

May I ask you when the eventghost plugin for the DUO will be available? Within the year?

[micke.prag]

krambriw have written a plugin for Duo. Read more here:
http://www.telldus.se/forum/viewtopic.p ... 7639#p7639

[Frunk]

Micke,

Sorry if my question is silly.
I've read all I could find about Tellstick DUO, but one thing is never mentioned : all I want is to be able to check my devices state at any time. That means saving all device state. I just created an account on Telldus Live but without any Tellstick I can't see how it is working.

Testing all app and devices is really time consuming. So my question is simple, within next months, what will be the most featured app that can work with Telldus DUO, allowing checking+switching devices state from a web interface and/or a Windows App and and Android app.

I can see that the Tellstick currently works with Home Automation and a lot of third party apps... On my side I'm using eventghost for mediacenter purpose. Shall I need to work with eventghost and use global variables to save devices state, or will there be some smarter integration? Will Teldus Live! save devices states? I know that this could be a problem because this is not 100% reliable (for instance one device is out of range)

I hope my question is clear...

[micke.prag]

First you have to understand one thing. There is no receiver that can tell us which state it is in. So you can never be 100% sure and there is now way to "ask" the receiver of its state.

With that said I can tell you how our software works. We always stores the last sent command from a TellStick. Using a TellStick this is the best way of determine the state of a device. If you use a TellStick Duo instead we can listen for different commands and update the saved state. So if you use a remote control we try to match this against all saved devices and update the state if we find a match.

The state will also be saved to Telldus Live! so it is possible to ask our API for a state of a device. The 2.0-series of TelldusCenter lacks some signals for updating the state so this doesn't work yet. It will work with 2.1 though. And 2.1 is the minimum requires version for TellStick Duo anyway...

Regarding which software to use, I am not sure which one will work best.

[Frunk]

Thank you for this detailed answer.

If you use a TellStick Duo instead we can listen for different commands and update the saved state. So if you use a remote control we try to match this against all saved devices and update the state if we find a match. ... The state will also be saved to Telldus Live!

This is exactly what I was looking for. I've just seen that you added the sensor class some days ago, so its obvious that great things will happen later in the year...